Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 28

You must determine your goal. What matters most? Winning arguments? Or resembling Christ? Even in the heat of an argument we should be asking ourselves if we are acting like Christ.
Francis Chan
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.
Lao Tzu
We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—“we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God.” Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.
Witness Lee
Do you mind if I contribute my thoughts to this one? If you could just stop nitpicking and dissecting every little thing, if you could learn to keep one eye closed and one eye open, and quit worrying about everything, you might discover life is pretty fucking beautiful. Am I right?
Ge Fei
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
Lao Tzu
It means, Day, that you're dying.
Marie Lu
Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Chinese Proverb
Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.
Pearl Zhu
You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.
Marie Lu
He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.
Zhuangzi
The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.
Pearl Zhu
Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb
Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.
Marie Lu
The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.
Confucius
But how could a mafioso be forced to commit suicide?" I continued. It only goes to show," she said, " that there are forces in this society more terrifying than the mafia. Ding Caichen was no match for them." As to what those " terrifying forces" might be, I couldn't begin to imagine.
Ge Fei
Yet, my grandfather was not a monster. He was simply a man of ordinary moral courage whose capacity for great evil was revealed to his and my everlasting shame. Labeling someone a monster implies that he is from another world, one which has nothing to do with us. It cuts off the bonds of affection and fear, assures us of our own superiority, but there's nothing learned, nothing gained. It's simple, but it's cowardly. I know now that only by empathizing with a man like my grandfather can we understand the depth of the suffering he caused. There are no monsters. The monster is us.
Ken Liu
Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader’s overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
Pearl Zhu
Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves.
Ken Liu
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.
Xiaolu Guo
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Chinese Proverb
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
Confucius
Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.
Zhuangzi
Li Gui called out, "Sir, if you kill me you will kill two persons.""How do you make that out?" asked Li Kui, staying the blow."At home I support my mother who is ninety years of age, and this is my only means of helping her in her old age," said Li Gui. "I never injure people, but only make them afraid. If you kill me, my old mother will die of starvation."Li Kui who never twinkled his eyes in chopping off people's heads, paused and thought when he heard this. "Here am I trying to succour my old mother, and yet killing a man who supports his old mother. Heaven will not allow me to live if I do this. No! No! I will forgive this man.(J.H. Jackson translation)
Shi Nai'an
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)
Lao-Tsze
Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
Pearl Zhu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
One dog barks at something the rest bark at him.
Chinese Proverb
He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.
Marie Lu
Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
Pearl Zhu
Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.
Pearl Zhu
I spur my horse past the ruined city;the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:ancient battlements, high and low;old grave mounds, great and small.Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed tremblesand the voice of the great trees clings forever,I sigh over all these common bones --No roll of the immortals bears their names.
Han-shan
A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.
Pearl Zhu
[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.
Witness Lee
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
Sun Tzu
Night is the sleep of seven wax mothsDawn is the singing of five mermaidsNoon is the scratching of three field miceDusk is the shadow of a crow
Xi Chuan
Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.
Pearl Zhu
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
Lao Tzu
You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
Pearl Zhu
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
Sherry Thomas
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.
Dai Sijie
And of all the rooms in my childhood,God was the largestand most empty.
Li-Young Lee
The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,
Xiaolu Guo
Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
Pearl Zhu
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available. I stay with him because I choose to everyday that I wake up, everyday that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
Jessica Pan
Creativity has often been analogized as “Thinking outside of the box.
Pearl Zhu
Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.
Lisa See
Mapidéré was but one man-and indeed, judging by rumors of his decrepit state near death, a weak, sickly man-but his creation, the empire, had taken on a life of its own. Killing the emperor would not have been enough. We have to kill the empire.
Ken Liu
Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.
Pearl Zhu
Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.
Lao Tzu
The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
Pearl Zhu
Those men and women of Yangzhou died a hundred years ago, Tian Haoli, and nothing can be done to change that. But the past lives on in the form of memories, and those in power are always going to want to erase and silence the past, to bury the ghosts. Now that you know about the past, you're no longer an innocent bystander. If you do not act you are complicit with the Emperor and his Blood Drops in this new act of violence, this deed of erasure. Like Wang Xiuchu, you're now a witness. Like him, you must choose what to do. You must decide if, on the day you die, you will regret your choice.
Ken Liu
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
Confucius
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Chinese Proverb
If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
Pearl Zhu
And a moment that ought to have lasted for everHas come and gone before I knew.
Li Shang-yin
The verses in the Bible are more than good teachings, they possess power.
Francis Chan
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
Pearl Zhu